President Obama Refuses to Acknowledge the Islamic Threat to America
January 11, 2010
On January 7, 2010, President Barack Hussein Obama acknowledged his government's failure to prevent a known Islamic terrorist, trained by a known enemy of America, from boarding a plane for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb strapped to his body.
The terrorist failed in his attempt to explode the plane in the air over Detroit, and murder its nearly three hundred passengers, only because the detonator failed and a passenger tackled him.
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As we indicated in Obama's Inexcusable Failure To Protect America From Terrorist Attack and Welcome To Obamaworld: No Passport? No Problem!, the President and his advisors were quick to deny that this was an organized terrorist attack, quick to claim that "the system worked", and slow to comprehend the colossal and near-catastrophic failure of the national security apparatus.
Had the operation succeeded, the tragedy to the passengers and their families would have been compounded by an immediate loss of confidence in our airline industry and a serious blow to our economy, as occurred after September 11, 2001.
Although this attack failed, Al Qaeda, which launched it through its affiliate Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen), views it as a major victory and a propaganda tool in its recruiting efforts.
Weaknesses in the security system for U.S. aviation have been exposed not only by the Christmas incident, but by the infamous 'kisser' affair which shut down a terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport for six hours on January 3rd, delaying travel for thousands of passengers and snarling airline traffic worldwide.
At Newark, a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employee left his post to have a conversation on his cell phone, and left a restricted area unguarded while Haisong Jiang, 28, of Piscataway, N.J., lifted a "restraining rope", crossed into the restricted area without a boarding pass and without having first gone through the security screening line, and kissed his girlfriend goodbye.
Parenthetically, although TSA guards are not represented by unions, the American Federation of Government Employees is representing the TSA guard, and intends "…to fully represent him to make sure this whole investigation is handled correctly and that he's not made a scapegoat for all that's been going wrong with security at the airports."
Isn't that precious?
Don't they shoot people in the Army for leaving their guard posts during war?
"We are at war. We are at war against al Qaeda…", the President said.
By the way, Mr. Obama's nominee to head the TSA, Erroll Southers, wants to allow TSA employees to unionize. This would be the same former F.B.I. agent Erroll Southers who twice used a government criminal database to spy on his estranged wife's boyfriend, and then lied about it to the United States Senate.
Unionized airport guards. We can hear it now: "It's not my job. It's not my fault. It's time for my break. Stop harassing me based on my race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability".
Despite Mr. Obama's nascent interest in airline security and the show he made of taking his intelligence chiefs to the woodshed, his new security measures are insufficient to prevent a successful terrorist attack, and there will be one.
As the Newark 'kisser' incident demonstrates, rent-a-cop TSA security guards lack the ability to stop a determined attack by a virulent, dedicated enemy.
Law-abiding passengers dutifully line up, produce their IDs and boarding passes, remove their shoes, belts, keys, and wallets, and carefully place their toiletries in plastic bags for the scanners to scrutinize.
Scofflaws like Haisong Jiang, a biology student from China, wait for the highly-dedicated TSA guard to abandon his post, then cross over undetected, while the malfunctioning security cameras capture grainy, blurred images.
So here's a question for Mr. Obama. Suppose that five, heavily armed Islamic terrorists wearing suicide vests had been waiting for our TSA Einstein to leave his post. What then?
At most major airports in America one can walk into the unsecured areas with a gun, a bomb or a lollypop without anyone so much as saying "boo". The distance from the curb to the planes is in some cases as little as fifty yards.
Five dedicated Islamists, or even just one, could evade or shoot the guard, lift the "restraining rope", sprint to the passenger boarding area, detonate the suicide vest, and kill hundreds of people.
At some airports, which we won't name, the planes are separated from the boarding area by windows only. The right explosive could penetrate the glass and a plane's fuel tanks, perhaps triggering explosions of refueling vehicles and the adjacent planes.
Seventy-two virgins for each of the boys; $50,000 for each of their families.
It wouldn't be quite as spectacular as jumbo jets flying into buildings against the backdrop of a blue, Manhattan sky, but Al Qaeda will warm to the idea if we're ever able to stop them from actually boarding our aircraft.
Will we be able to keep Al Qaeda operatives off of our airplanes?
Rafi Ron, the top security consultant at Logan International Airport in Boston, who also once headed security at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, said the following to the Associated Press on January 7th:
"We think that if we just add more and more machines, we, at some point, we will create a situation that will be impossible for the terrorists to act. Obviously, this is doomed to fail," Ron said. "There are so many ways to use the loopholes left by technology."
He advocates behavioral profiling based on an interview of each passenger at the ID checkpoint.
"Right now, that component of a full-scale interview at the checkpoint is completely nonexistent. Period," Ron said. "And as long as we don't have it, we are giving up one of the most powerful tools that we have available, because terrorists are so bad in preparing their cover stories and their ability to even hold their cover story when they prepare one."
Would Mr. Obama order such interviews? Don't count on it.
He's a slave to his ideology and political correctness.
There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world and anywhere from 1 million to 7 million in America, depending upon whose estimates one chooses to believe.
"And we know that the vast majority of Muslims reject al Qaeda", the President said.
Really? Do we know that?
A majority is more than half. Have we heard more than 600 million Muslims lift their voices to condemn the Sept. 11th attacks, or the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, or the attempted bombing of the Detroit plane?
Have we heard more than 500,000 Muslims in America raise their voices in full-throated condemnation of Osama bin Laden?
On the contrary, polls indicate that most Muslims believe jihad against America is sanctioned by the Koran and is their duty.
Let's grant the President his point, however. Suppose that 95% of all Muslims reject Al Qaeda and would never in their wildest dreams engage in a terror plot.
That would leave 60 million who would, 50,000 of whom already live in the United States.
One of them is a U.S. Army Major. Remember him? We mentioned him in "Muslim Jurors for 9/11 Islamic Terrorists" (see left side bar).
"…Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's loyalty was to Islam and Sharia law, not to the United States or the Constitution he took an oath to defend and protect." On November 5, 2009 he "jump[ed] up on a desk at Ft. Hood, yell[ed] the battle cry of all Islamic Fascists, Allahu Akbar, and gun[ned] down more than thirty of his fellow U.S. citizens and soldiers".
The politically correct U.S. Army and intelligence agencies knew of his radical views months before the attack, but did nothing.
In Malaysia last week, Muslims firebombed several Christian Churches because Christians are using the word "Allah" to describe the Christian God. "Allah" has been used by Christians for centuries in Malaysia, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Indonesia as the equivalent for the English word "God".
"Allah is only for us", said the Muslim firebombers.
"And that's why we must communicate clearly to Muslims around the world", said the President, "that al Qaeda offers nothing except a bankrupt vision of misery and death-including the murder of fellow Muslims-while the United States stands with those who seek justice and progress."
They're not buying what the President is selling.
Two of the top four Al Qaeda leaders in Yemen were released from Gitmo after they promised not to attack us anymore.
Mr. Obama insisted on their release when he was running for President.
In England, Muslims demand Sharia law for themselves and claim that they need not comply with English law.
"We will define the character of our country", Obama said, "not some band of small men intent on killing innocent men, women and children."
The only problem with that lofty statement is that we don't know who "we" are anymore. We no longer are the ones defining the character of our country, which has now been invaded by millions of illegal aliens (Muslim and otherwise) who are ignorant and uncaring of our Constitution, history and language.
In America, Muslims demand special privileges at our universities; privileges which exclude non-Muslims from university facilities during designated times.
Muslims don't view us as "innocent", but rather as infidels and apostates who are legitimate targets for killings sanctioned by Allah.
Muslims in America have murdered their own daughters in the name of family honor, indicating a wholesale rejection of our laws, values, and customs.
Our prisons are becoming fertile recruiting ground for radical Muslims who prize American converts for terror missions, and feckless federal judges grant voting rights to those same inmates.
While the wholesale stereotyping and stigmatization of Muslims would be un-American, unjust, morally reprehensible, and counterproductive, we must recognize a clear threat to our country, our society and our way of life from millions of Muslims who seek our destruction.
No amount of tinkering with airport security or our intelligence agencies will protect us from that.
We must abandon political correctness, demand that those living in our country fully integrate into our society, and remove those who don't. And we must deny entry into our country, via airplanes or otherwise, to those intent on our destruction, either through terrorist attacks or the slow insinuation of their laws and values into our lives.
President Obama seems unable or unwilling to recognize these stark facts.
If he were serious about airport security he wouldn't advocate unionization of TSA employees.
If he were serious about destroying Al Qaeda, he would stop sending recruits to them from Gitmo, and he certainly would not send the 9/11 masterminds to America for trial in civilian courts.
If Mr. Obama truly wanted to eliminate Al Qaeda, he wouldn't demand that Americans endure full-body scans at airports while he refuses to wiretap terrorists' phone calls to America.
If he were serious about winning the war against terrorism, he'd stop diverting spy satellites for global warming studies.
Most importantly, Barack Obama needs to realize that Al Qaeda is part and parcel of the Islamic world. It gets its money and sustenance from Islamic society, and no amount of appeasement and happy talk is going to convince Muslims to abandon Al Qaeda in favor of America.
The President claims that "At the Amsterdam airport, Abdulmutallab (the Detroit bomber)…was required to show his documents-including a valid U.S. visa".
The President wasn't at the airport with Mr. Abdulmutallab, but fellow passenger and American citizen Kurt Haskell was, and he tells a different story.
According to Mr. Haskell, Abdulmutallab was walked up to the ticket agent by a man in a suit who told the agent that the Al Qaeda terrorist didn't have a passport, but to let him board the plane because "we do this all the time".
Mr. Haskell claims that our government is lying to us about this matter.
So Mr. President, prove to us that an airport official in Amsterdam didn't conspire with Al Qaeda to bomb this plane.
Show us Abdulmutallab's original passport and visa.
Maybe you can find it where you hide your birth certificate.